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Mixed Signals: Understanding Model Disagreement in Multimodal Empathy Detection
Maya Srikanth, Run Chen, Julia Hirschberg
Multimodal models play a key role in empathy detection, but their performance can suffer when modalities provide conflicting cues. To understand these failures, we examine cases wh…
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SYNTHEMPATHY: A Scalable Empathy Corpus Generated Using LLMs Without Any Crowdsourcing
Run Chen, Jun Shin, Julia Hirschberg
Previous research has shown that humans are more receptive towards language models that that exhibit empathetic behavior. While empathy is essential for developing helpful dialogue…